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Religion and the News (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012), pp. xiv + 250, isbn : 978-1409420194 (pbk). £19.99. Arising from a conference held in 2009, the papers collected in this volume explore the relations between media outlets and religious communities in the United Kingdom. The book is divided into four sections. Section one presents overviews of the treatment of religion in the contemporary British media. Jolyon Mitchell takes the 2011 ‘Occupation’ of St. Paul’s Cathedral as a case study, examining media portrayals of the events and agents involved. The content he finds does little to inspire confidence in the media or in religious leaders. Tendencies toward oversimplification, sensationalism, and communication failures mark most of the reports he explores. The next two chapters, the first by Teemu Taira, Elizabeth Poole, and Kim Knott, the second by Robin Gill, offer longitudinal studies of media treatment of religion covering the last several decades. Both trace out similar patterns including, first, a rise in the relative treatment of religion in the media, with the majority (though not the totality) of the rise being due to increased treatment of Islam; secondly, an increase in the hostile, and at times defamatory coverage of religion, especially
International Journal of Public Theology – Brill
Published: Jun 2, 2015
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